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▪ I. † ˈbenight, adv. Obs. By night, ere night.1642 Gen. Preston in Carte Coll. (1735) 120, I will not trouble your Lordship with more benight.▪ II. benight, v. (bɪˈnaɪt) [f. be- 6 + night.] 1. trans. a. pass. To be overtaken by the darkness of night (before reaching a place of shelter).1560 J. Daus...
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benighten
beˈnighten, v. rare. (bɪˈnaɪt(ə)n) [f. benight, app. after enlight-en: see -en.] trans. To benight. Hence beˈnightening vbl. n.1844 Blackw. Mag. LVI. 787 A mere priestly delusion to enslave and benighten mankind. 1860 Pusey Min. Proph. 193 Moral benightening which seems to cast the shadow of death o...
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Chip Benight.
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In 2011, Cieślak was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
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benighter
benighter (bɪˈnaɪtə(r)) [f. benight + -er1.] One who keeps others in darkness.1818 Moore Fudge Fam. Paris vi. 208, I, from my soul, profess To hate all bigots and benighters.
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Weather and Society Integrated Studies
Benight, 2007: False alarms and close calls: A conceptual model of warning accuracy. Weather Forecast., 22, 1140-1147.
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benighting
▪ I. beˈnighting, vbl. n. [f. benight + -ing1.] The fact of being benighted or overtaken by night away from shelter.a 1639 W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxvi. (1640) 90 To meet with such kinde of accidents, as benighting. 1819 L. Hunt Indicator, No. 8 (1822) I. 60 Spenser..seems to have taken the idea o...
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List of English words of Old English origin
bellwether
belly
belly button
belly dance
bellyache
bellyful
belong
belongings
beloved
beltway
bemoan
bench
bench-warmer
benchmark
bend
bender
beneath
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punyship
† ˈpunyship Obs. Also 6 punie-, 6–7 puni-. [f. puny + -ship.] The position, status, or character of a ‘puny’; juniority; inferiority. Also with possessive as a mock title.1581 Mulcaster Positions v. (1887) 32 Reading..must needes acknowledge and confesse her puniship to writing. 1599 Nashe Lenten St...
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strenuous
strenuous, a. (ˈstrɛnjuːəs) [f. L. strēnu-us brisk, active, vigorous (related to Gr. στρηνής strong, hard, rough, στρῆνος haughtiness, arrogance) + -ous. Cf. It. strenuo, Sp. estrénuo. App. first used by Marston; one of the words ridiculed, as pedantic neologisms, by Ben Jonson in his attack on Mars...
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scowl
▪ I. scowl, n.1 (skaʊl) Also 6 scowle, 7 scoul. [f. scowl v.] A louring or malevolent look.1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 123 The air was dirkit with the fowlis, That come..With skryking, skrymming and with scowlis, To tak him in the tyde. 1625 in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 206, I suppose none but...
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fog
▪ I. fog, n.1 (fɒg) Also 4, 6–7, 9 fogg(e, 6 Sc. foge, 7, 9 feg, 8 Sc. fouge, fug. [of unknown origin; the Welsh ffwg ‘dry grass’ (O. Pughe), often given as the source, is from Eng.] 1. a. The grass which springs up immediately after the hay-crop has been taken off, aftermath. b. The long grass left...
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be-
be- prefix :—OE. be-, weak or stressless form of the prep. and adv. b{iacu} (biᵹ), by. The original Teut. form was, as in Gothic, bi, with short vowel, prob. cognate with second syllable of Gr. ἀµϕί, L. ambi; in OHG. and early OE., when it had the stress, as a separate word, and in composition with ...
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all
all, a., n., and adv. (ɔːl) Forms: sing. 1– all (late WS. 1–3 eall, eal), 1–7 al (north. 4–5 alle). pl. 1–5 alle (WS. 1–3 ealle, north. 2–7 al), 5– all. For early inflected forms, see below, D. [Common to all the Teutonic stock, but not found beyond: cf. OS. all, al, OFris. al, ol, OHG. al (all-er),...
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